Julia Creek's Multi-Purpose Health Service will again offer overnight palliative care after losing the service in November last year.
The town had its healthcare level downgraded from a level two facility to a level one last year, sparking outrage in the small community.
Level one care services do not include guarantees such as having a doctor on staff and meant the Julia Creek Multi-Purpose Health Service would not provide for overnight stays for emergency patients.
The change left the town without a permanent doctor.
Now, the overnight inpatient beds for low-acuity elderly palliative patients who had beds in the past have re-opened.
North West Hospital and Health Service acting chief executive Karen Murphy said the health service had sourced "fantastic nursing staff".
"We have a contract now with a general practitioners' organisation that will provide regular GPs at least two days per week to start with," Dr Murphy said.
"Critical patients would still always, at any time, be flown out by RFDS or [helicopter]."
Dr Murphy said the hospital had not been upgraded back to a level two because a doctor would not be onsite at all times, but she said they were "working on it".
"There are still challenges with recruiting doctors, nurses, allied health practitioners, not just in the North West, but across the whole country," she said.
Doctors coming from Townsville
Michael Clements, the owner of Fairfield Central Medical Practice, which provides outreach services to North West Queensland, said he had a dedicated group of GPs who lived in Townsville.
"We have a real commitment to supporting our rural communities and one of the ways that we've been doing that for the past five years is we've been sending a plane out with doctors and medical students and trainees to different remote communities in need," Dr Clements said.
Dr Clements said his practice would now be stepping in to fill the gap in Julia Creek.
"I'm calling this the interim phase. Longer-term solutions will need to be sorted out," he said.
"We can provide Telehealth services, repeat scripts and referrals, and mental health.
"In addition to that, we're going to be there, hopefully, one or two days per week."
Dr Clements said he and his staff would be in Julia Creek on a roster, so patients could see doctors from the same practice for continuity of GP support.
He said he hoped the plan would ease some community frustration.
"I think there's been an awful lot of frustration due to the uncertainty," Dr Clements said.
"This is a national problem."
